Francis Itty Cora -

In 1506, during the Portuguese occupation, he convinced the Archbishop of Angamaly to let him search. For months, he wandered the Malabar coast, tracing old songs and half-forgotten landmarks. And then, on a hillock near present-day Ernakulam, he found it—half-sunken in earth, covered in wild roots, but intact.

To look into Francis Itty Cora is to look into the mist of Kerala’s Christian memory—a place where history and miracle blur like monsoon rain on an ancient window. francis itty cora

He was a 16th-century Syrian Christian from the Knanaya community, a man of quiet faith and deep roots in the pepper-rich lands of Kottayam. But his name survives not for what he owned, but for what he sought. In 1506, during the Portuguese occupation, he convinced